Books

LionSearch — Search for books, articles and more with one search box. From your results list limit your search to Books under Content Type.
The CAT (the Libraries' Catalog) — Find books and other materials at all Penn State campuses.
E-Books
Digitized Collections — Links to digital books and other collections created or hosted at Penn State University Libraries.

Interlibrary Loan — Request books and other materials not owned by Penn State from other libraries
E-ZBorrow
(PALCI) Pennsylvania Academic Libraries
UBorrow DB
Uborrow simultaneously searches the catalogs of the CIC "Big Ten" libraries such as Ohio State, Michigan State, the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois, and the University of Chicago
Center for Research Libraries
Search the CRL special collection databases
WorldCat (OCLC)
Holdings from more than 10,000 libraries worldwide, and includes the holdings from the previous Research Libraries Group (RLG) catalog
Access PA
Pennsylvania public, school and research libraries

Google Book Search — This digital index to the contents of over 10 million English language books is created from the contents of CIC university libraries and others.
Hathi Trust Digital Library — a digital catalog and repository created by research libraries.

Quick Guide to Searching the CAT (HTML version) or Quick Guide to Searching in the CAT (easy-print PDF version).
Savvy Searching in the CAT (HTML version), or Savvy Searching in the CAT (easy-print PDF version
Searching for non-English materials (applies to Windows XP operating system only)

See Commons Services for Call Number Locations
You can request materials in the CAT at any time using "I Want It."
Materials are usually retrieved within 24 hours, M-F.